Alex started his career as the first business development hire at companies like TripIt (Acq: SAP/Concur) and Drawbridge (Acq: LinkedIn). He has built businesses from a mathematical proof on a whiteboard to a $10mm+ run rate–in 13 months– as the first and only business guy on an otherwise highly technical team.

After bootstrapping his own mobile startup with two cofounders, he raised $6.5 million in venture capital for his own AI startup, Perfect Price, which he left in 2020.

Since then he has overseen corporate acquisitions at Opendoor (NASDAQ: OPEN), served as CRO for the largest private EV charging network in the US, and–perhaps most importantly–advised countless founders on GTM.

Today, besides teaching this course, Alex hosts the Seed to Sequoia podcast where he interviews VCs, founders and entrepreneurs on their GTM learnings, and he advises early stage founders via his firm, Silverwood.